Who ruined D&D's Rep?

[Barastrondo]

It was those other guys over there. If it wasn't for them, everyone would know D&D is super-awesome cool and all the cheerleaders would find pretending to be an elf the sexiest thing in the world.

 

[Rykion]

It was all E.T.'s fault.

 

[Halivar]

It was those other guys over there. If it wasn't for them, everyone would know D&D is super-awesome cool and all the cheerleaders would find pretending to be an elf the sexiest thing in the world.

Wait, you mean your gaming group doesn't consist entirely of college coed's in chainmail bikinis with Starfleet badges? Man, that must suck.

 

[Deset Gled]

This thread is here for everyone to voice their opinion of what person or group made D&D seem really geeky and stupid, making them think the same of any who played it.
I'll start: LARPers. They are the idiots running around in a robe in the woods yelling "Lightning bolt" and hitting each other with foam swords

Thank you for the opportunity to once again use this image:

Hotlinked from here: The Geek Hierarchy: We All Have Our Thing , which has an article on this very topic.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

You have to have a rep before anyone can ruin it.

 

[Ambrus]

Tom Hanks.

 

[Mark]

Who ruined D&D's Rep?

There are those who call him . . . Tim?




It probably doesn't help the rep to riff on Monty Python.

 

[pawsplay]

People with five posts complaining about total strangers making them look bad by virtue of sharing the same hobby? Pardon me, I can't really seem to get the feel of whether the OP was humorous, satirical, or straight up.

 

[Dragonhelm]

You have to have a rep before anyone can ruin it.

I submit that D&D and role-playing in general needs to earn a positive reputation.

 

[catsclaw227]

Wow... the post I was going to quote absolutley disappeared. The page was loaded for a while, and I only now got to quote a post and comment on it and...... it was gone and another post appeared.

Mod magic?


Anyways....

james dallas egbert iii

The book written by the investigator tells the truth about what happened. The media blew this bigtime into a D&D hatefest, but his disappearace was only tangentially related to D&D.

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